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The secretive Project Max container company
better not be like when the Industrial Authority bragged about a prospect that would bring in 300 clean jobs and it turned out to be
a private prison,
which fortunately (after much public opposition) never happened.
At last Tuesday’s Lowndes County Commissioner Regular Session, nearby landowner Mike Paine said he is afraid of many things, because it’s a rush job
and nobody has told him anything concrete.
The Industrial Authority, now called the Development Authority, says we should
trust them.
It would help if they wouldn’t say things like no emissions but steam,
when burning natural gas produces CO2,
and if they would admit that methane often leaks, and then it’s a far worse
greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Video.
About the public hearing for rezoning from Estate Agricultural (E-A) to heavy-duty manufacturing (M-2) for the
hush-hush Project Max, the big-fish container manufacturing plant proposed for Rocky Ford Road,
next to the protected watershed of Mud Swamp and near Valdosta Airport,
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